0 a room where the people who control a company or organization meet
1 the group of people who manage a company or organization:
She feels strongly that British boardrooms desperately need diversity.
Shareholders felt mistakes had been made at boardroom level.
boardroom battle/dispute/row The chairman stepped down after a bitter boardroom battle.
boardroom coup/shake-up The departure of the chief executive and finance director in a boardroom coup has given rise to takeover speculation.
2 the room where the group of people who manage a company or organization have their meetings:
Workers were told of the closure in the company's boardroom.
The Bell boardroom looked more like a retail operation than a back office, decked out in brand-consistent livery, from the fabric-dyed rag carpets to the avant-garde lighting fixtures.
The idea was to move labor grievances from the streets to the courts and boardrooms under the watchful eye of state functionaries.
This process can be applied around patients' beds as well as family kitchen tables or corporate boardrooms.
Several novels deal with the turbulent dramas besetting the corporate corridors of phonographic power: the studios and boardrooms, where careers are forged or destroyed.
It was not debated in the boardrooms and formulated as hospital or professional-society mission statements.
They appear to operate more easily at the grassroots than in the boardroom, and their ability to influence strategic planning and service delivery is far from proven.
Perhaps still more intriguing is that the "members" of this discipline routinely engage the public at the hospital bedside, in the institutional boardroom, and through public policy consultation.
